Alaska

María Olvido Gara Jova (born June 13, 1963) better known as Alaska is a Spanish-Mexican singer, DJ, and television personality famous in Spain and Latin America.She was one of the founding members of the La Movida Madrileña, the cultural and artistic movement that followed the end of Francoist Spain.This movement, in which music, the arts, cinema and fashion erupted and collided to show what Spain had become under Franco.She has participated, since the late 1970s, in several music groups: Kaka de Luxe 1977, Alaska y los Pegamoides 1980, Alaska y Dinarama 1983, and since 1989, the Spanish electropop band, Fangoria.Today, Alaska continues to perform and has become an icon of 1980s Spain.